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    Data Center Backlash Upends Swing State Governor’s Race
    FIRST ON DAILY SIGNAL—Republican gubernatorial candidate Tom Tiffany is betting Wisconsin voters’ growing opposition to data centers can help flip the governor’s mansion, and new polling suggests he may have found one of the most potent issues in the race. After the state’s Democrat primary last week, Tiffany moved quickly to define his opponent, the…
    Robert B. Bluey
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    Blue Cities, Counties in Red States Sue Trump Administration Over Election Grant Conditions
    Major city and county governments are suing the Trump administration to claw back grant money withheld for their refusal to implement election security measures. On Monday, the cities of Nashville, Tennessee, and Columbus, Ohio, along with Harris County and El Paso County in Texas, sued the Department of Homeland Security after the agency issued new…
    Fred Lucas
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    Declassified Documents Reveal Democrats’, Deep State Targeting of Sessions in Russia Probe
    In the early months of President Donald Trump’s first term, when enemies of the administration clung to the since-discredited Russia collusion narrative, the FBI opened a probe called “March Toll” into then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions. The FBI launched the probe at the behest of two Democrat senators, one of whom resigned from office in disgrace…
    Fred Lucas
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    As US Senate Struggles, These States Are Enacting Their Own Versions of the SAVE Act
    Seven states enacted laws in 2025 and 2026 that include key provisions of the SAVE America Act, an election integrity measure that the Senate has failed to pass despite President Donald Trump’s insistence. The federal SAVE America Act would require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections and photo ID…
    Fred Lucas
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    ‘Trump’s Lapdog’ vs. ‘Government Failure’: Hilton, Becerra Trade Insults in Statements to the Daily Signal
    With California’s gubernatorial election drawing closer, the war of words between Democrat Xavier Becerra and Republican Steve Hilton is intensifying. A series of pointed statements by both campaigns underscores just how combative the race has become. Last week, Hilton made Becerra’s tenure as U.S. secretary of health and human services a centerpiece of his campaign,…
    Angelina Delfin
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    Arizona SAVE Act Backers Sue, Say Secretary of State’s Ballot Language Is Misleading
    Supporters of an Arizona version of the SAVE Act allege that the state’s top election official used loaded and inaccurate language to describe the measure when putting it on the November ballot. A group of Arizona voters is suing the office of Democrat Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, alleging the office omitted key provisions,…
    Fred Lucas
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    SCOOP: Red State Trump Ally to Run for Governor
    Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch will announce her candidacy for governor of the state, the Daily Signal can first report.  “It is just such a proud moment to be able to even announce my candidacy for governor, and it’s always about making the tough choices and putting innovative ideas into action,” Fitch told the Daily…
    Elizabeth Troutman Mitchell
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    Secure Elections: Ohio Secretary of State Candidates Speak About Their Priorities
    Editor’s note: This article was updated at 11:15 a.m. Tuesday. Ohio has many crucial statewide elections this year, including the race for secretary of state. The top two candidates for the job have different views on secure elections in the Buckeye State. This November, Treasurer Robert Sprague, the Republican nominee, is running against state Rep….
    Rebecca Downs
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    10 States Checked Their Voter Rolls With a DHS Database to Find Startling Info
    Twenty-five states, with the help of a Department of Homeland Security database, have identified hundreds of thousands of dead people and noncitizens registered to vote, and they haven’t finished counting yet. So far, just 10 states—including key battlegrounds Georgia and North Carolina—have fully processed the voter data through the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or…
    Fred Lucas
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    After DHS Release of Noncitizens on Voter Rolls, How Have States Responded?
    A week after Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin wrote to top election officials in four states warning of hundreds of thousands of potential noncitizens on their voter rolls, only New Jersey has admitted to a problem. The other three states have been either noncommittal in responding or have pushed back on Mullin’s claims. The Department…
    Fred Lucas
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    Data Center Opponents Stage 142 Protests Across 42 States
    Opponents of the rapid buildout of data centers held 142 protests across 42 states on Saturday in the first nationwide effort to channel anger at the AI infrastructure expansion that has ramped up over the past year and roiled local politics. The protests were coordinated by HumansFirst, co-founded by a former leader of the modern-day Tea…
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    RNC Opens New Front in Election Integrity Battle Over ‘Never Residents’ Voting in 6 States
    After a victory in the battleground state of North Carolina, the Republican National Committee has pending litigation against six other states to stop U.S. citizens who never lived in those states from voting in their elections. The RNC has sued battleground states Arizona and Nevada; blue states such as Colorado, New Jersey, and Virginia; and…
    Fred Lucas
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    Trump: China Accessed 220 Million US Voter Files, Deep State Hid Evidence
    President Donald Trump announced the release of declassified documents he said are evidence that China has been meddling in U.S. elections by hacking into voter registration databases and by other means. Trump, who spoke Thursday evening in a prime time address to the nation, said the “deep state” had this information and suppressed it from…
    Fred Lucas
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    CNN Calls Out Michigan’s El-Sayed for Previous ‘Defund the Police’ Statements
    CNN is calling out Abdul El-Sayed, a Democrat candidate for Michigan’s Senate seat, for his shifting views on the “defund the police” movement. Before launching his Senate campaign, El-Sayed deleted his X history, including numerous posts touting the “defund the police” movement, according to CNN. He then claimed he didn’t advocate for defunding the police….
    Francesca Cella
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    Senate Democrat Says SAVE Act Would Enable Trump to Make It ‘Hard for Any Democrat in Any State to Win Any Election’
    The White House responded after a Senate Democrat said part of President Donald Trump’s preferred election law, the SAVE America Act, would enable him to “rig our democracy” and make it hard for any Democrat to win an election. In a recently resurfaced video of her remarks at the Indiana Democratic Party’s state convention on…
    Tyler O’Neil
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    Daily Signal Launches Georgia Bureau With State-Based Correspondent
    The Daily Signal is expanding its state-based reporting initiative to Georgia with Peach State native Rebecca Buis joining the team as our first-ever Georgia correspondent, based in the metro Atlanta area. Buis brings a strong foundation in conservative policy and politics to the role. She is a graduate of Liberty University, where she earned her…
    Robert B. Bluey
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  • After SCOTUS Fails to Act, States Must Step Up to Save Election Day
    DAILY CALLER NEWS FOUNDATION—The current conservative Supreme Court rarely gets it wrong when it comes to election administration. But in this week’s ruling in Watson v. RNC, that reliable majority flipped on its head with Justices John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett siding with the liberals by holding that, despite plain language in federal law dictating…
    Steve Roberts and Nicole Kelly
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    Deep State Strikes, as EPA Employees Who Signed Anti-Trump Letter Sue Over Firing
    In another case of federal bureaucrats challenging elected leaders, seven employees of the Environmental Protection Agency who signed onto a public letter opposing President Donald Trump were eventually ousted. Now they’re suing to get their jobs back. The terminated employees are suing with the backing of the litigation group Democracy Forward. Democrat lawyer Marc Elias…
    Fred Lucas
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    A National Role Model: Louisiana’s Indictment of Noncitizen Voter Can Teach Other States
    Secure elections begin with accurate voter rolls. Creating these voter rolls requires public servants dedicated to election integrity. After her string of recent successes with the use of the federal SAVE databases and passage of an enhanced voter ID law, other states could take some pointers from Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry.   Landry was pivotal in Louisiana’s adoption of the revamped Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database in May 2025, when it became the…
    Elizabeth Schlueter | Don Palmer
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    Virginia State GOP Voids Lynchburg Primary Results
    Voters in Lynchburg, Virginia, can expect a large slate of candidates for the three city council seats that will be on the ballot in November. That’s because the Republican State Central Committee voted 55-17 to set aside the results of last month’s “firehouse primary” and declared that all interested candidates may file to be on…
    Rich Tucker
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